sammorgz Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Try banging the back gently, where the fan is. You could also hoover the dust out of it. It does sound fan related. is it noisy? The fan or processor? It doesn't sound noisy (unless I haven't noticed). I'll leave it off for a couple of hours to let it cool down but hoovering could work. This same laptop had something wrong with the processor in the past (can't remember what exactly)... The repair man told me not to play games on it in the future. Did I listen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted December 8, 2015 Moderators Share Posted December 8, 2015 The best advice I can give is make sure you back everything up now, because that sucker's on its way out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammorgz Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 The best advice I can give is make sure you back everything up now, because that sucker's on its way out. It appears to have been on its way out for nearly two years. I could have bought a new one for the amount I've spent on repairs on it. I don't think I'm going to be able to get it stay on for long enough to back everything up so its a bit of a nightmare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Refused Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Make sure you keep it elevated so you can get some airflow underneath it. Might be able to squeeze some more time out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammorgz Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Cheers guys. If it is well and truly knackered this time then I'll just have to buy a new one as I'm not spending anymore on repairs for it. Am I right in thinking you can get a relatively good machine for about £200 these days? I'll probably wait until the January sales and give myself a £250 budget (finance depending).  EDIT: Got it on long enough to create a restore point so that's something. Shut it down as soon as I finished so I'm guessing it may have just been severely overheated earlier. May attempt to do a big back up at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undefeated Steak Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Sam, I know it's a little more than you mentioned in your post but I got a Lenovo Z50 earlier this year and I swear by it. It's a fantastic piece of kit. Just Googled it and it's going for about £350 so you might be able to get it under £300 after Christmas. It runs like a dream, looks nice and I can run a load of programmes at once without it slowing down much, including Photoshop/Illustrator etc.  I've had two blue screens of death but I'm putting that down to something on Windows 10 as I've not installed anything else since and it didn't have before I upgraded to W10.  Not sure whether it still does but it came with a free year of Office 365 and 3 month's free Google music streaming.  http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/lenovo/z-series/z50/#tab-features Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammorgz Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Cheers mate. I have a Lenovo now so would definitely consider getting another. Will keep an eye out for that model after Christmas as it sounds good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted December 8, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 8, 2015 Lenovo laptops are really shit. I had 2 of the fuckers conk out on me. Laptops were sold on Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammorgz Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Are DVD's on the way out? I've got about 700 of the things and I've been quite tempted for a while to trade them all into CEX to start from scratch collecting Blu Rays. I know in reality it's digital copies taking over but much like books and CD's I much prefer to have the physical copy. I have a few Blu Rays already and love the picture quality of certain films, however on some older films I've not seen the fuss. I can't see them stopping producing DVD's anytime soon but seeing as Blu Ray's are nowhere near as expensive anymore I thought it may be time to jump on the bandwagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted December 9, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 9, 2015 What the fuck does "Bae" mean/stand for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted December 9, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 9, 2015 My interpretation of 'bae' is that it means 'baby'. Only in a street, black, speak only in vowels where possible way. Kind of like "mu'fugga". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sphinx Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Benoit Assou-Ekotto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sphinx Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Nah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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